Justice travel guide

Justice concerns the proper ordering of things and persons within a society. As a concept it has been subject to philosophical, legal, and theological reflection and debate throughout history.
Discussions of justice can be divided into two broad fields. Distributive justice is concerned with the proper allocation of good things - wealth, power, reward, respect - between different people. For example, egalitarianism is a theory of distributive justice which holds that the proper distribution of wealth (and perhaps other goods) should be an equal one: no individual in the relevant group should have more or less than any other individual in that group. Retributive justice is concerned with the proper response to wrongdoing. For instance, the lex talionis (law of retaliation) is a theory of retributive justice which says that proper punishment should be equal to the wrong suffered: "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." (...) more....

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